Microsoft announced today that the Windows 11 Notepad application is getting a text formatting feature supporting Markdown-style input.

Steps to remove Text Formatting in Notepad. Features like text formatting options, spell check, Autocorrect, Copilot AI assistant, and Microsoft Account sign-in.

Microsoft has added bold, italic, and Markdown support to Notepad for Windows 11, updating the famously simple text editor with formatting tools.

Notepad keeps getting more features, and Microsoft’s latest move to add lightweight formatting options is divisive, shall we say.

Is Notepad becoming WordPad now? Microsoft's new formatting features for Windows 11's text editor are proving to be highly divisive.